I see that the xml progress has come to a near halt. I wish I knew more about xml but I don't so I'm not much help. Mario...
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Peter Kahle
lokgar
Aug 8, 2002 6:47 pm
Hi Folks, Well, I've gotten my interest in this part of the project re-kindled by the discussion of LST-Editors and the discussion on the d20-xml list. So I'm...
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adnd-pcgen@...
Azhrei_fje
Aug 9, 2002 3:58 pm
... Hi, Peter. ... You don't know me; I've been a lurker here for awhile. I'm interested in doing some XML development as a learning process, and I have a...
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Peter Kahle
lokgar
Aug 9, 2002 6:20 pm
... Heh, We all know how that goes. ... Well, that's one way to do it, and probably the way to go in the end, but for a first step, I was more thinking of...
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Joaquin Lippincott
metaltoad
Aug 9, 2002 8:05 pm
It should definately being XML. You should have a self contained Character XML files which can be parsed and interpreted however it's needed. I am mostly...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Aug 12, 2002 3:27 pm
... I'm thinking more of logging dependencies between files. For instance, we could have (much data elided): wotc/core_rules/players_handbook/classes.xml: ...
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Peter Kahle
lokgar
Aug 12, 2002 8:09 pm
... I believe we're saying pretty much the same thing, I'm just beginning with a smaller step, using XML to pretty much directly replace the PCC and LST files...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Aug 12, 2002 9:25 pm
... <depend>s would appear very early in the file -- they are used to link to other files, and would be useful for meta-information as well (such as...
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Peter Kahle
lokgar
Aug 12, 2002 9:55 pm
... Cool. Makes sense. I'm going to do my homework on SAX before I ask any stupid questions about it. Though I will ask one stupid question about <mod> type...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Aug 12, 2002 10:45 pm
... I haven't done much (anything, really) with DOM, but I have done some SAX. ... For the case you've described, I don't know that I'd use a MOD. There are...
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Scott Ellsworth
scottalodar
Aug 13, 2002 7:58 pm
Moved from pcgen list. ... We are also working on a DTD, or even better a schema, so that validation becomes natural. The big win for me is the easy...
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aspxpert
Aug 13, 2002 8:21 pm
When PCGen loads LST files, what does it do with them? Does it leave them in memory as collections of unparsed strings, or does it parse them into a more...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Aug 13, 2002 8:44 pm
... As I understand it (and I haven't gone into the code) the data structures currently in PCGen are very generalized and *big*. I also understand that they...
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Peter Kahle
lokgar
Aug 13, 2002 8:46 pm
It does parse them out, though there may be some stuff that's not parsed. Check out message #150 on this group, I used Castor to dump the XML from some of the...
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Scott Ellsworth
scottalodar
Aug 13, 2002 8:57 pm
... The data structures are very generalized, and some parsing does take place, but not enough. Much of the data still exists as strings, though they have...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Aug 13, 2002 9:17 pm
... See! See! A *knowledgeable* answer. I wish I had more of those.... <g> Keith -- Keith Davies keith.davies@... PCGen-XML Reaper, smartass...
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ysgarran
Aug 13, 2002 11:09 pm
I've worked on just such a beast on the assumption that it would be easier to convert from an intermediate XML file to the final XML format. I never checked...
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Drew Bernat
arbernat
Aug 14, 2002 12:58 am
If I'm starting to sound like a broken record (Or a CS major in the shower) please let me know. It seems to me that doing a full-blown conversion of PCGen to...
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cacharbe
Aug 14, 2002 1:22 am
... the ... Erm, no. I'm working on that for the perl parser I'm building for the prettylst rewrite. The hopes (as I mentioned on the main list) is that some...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Aug 14, 2002 2:54 am
... Option A: Already have this -- the *sheet*.fo templates write XSL-FO, which is an XML file. I know it's a generic one (in that it focuses only on...
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Eric Beaudoin
beaudoer
Aug 14, 2002 2:58 am
... Count on it. Expect the next list right after the next release of PCGEN. There are too many changes hapening right now for a imediate release to be useful....
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Stuart Updegrave
supdegrave
Aug 14, 2002 6:04 am
... XSL-FO, ... focuses ... This is rather ad-hoc, and I certainly have not created DTD / XSD for it, but attached is the XML character sheet I'm using...
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mauriceonmaplate
mauriceonmap...
Aug 14, 2002 8:38 pm
As far as I can see, XML introduction has one advantage, which is that it is a 'Standard', and a number of disadvantages. The advantage may be ephemeral, in...
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kyuzo184
Aug 14, 2002 8:50 pm
... I think you will find a lot of disagreement to that statement. While xml itself may be difficult for some it may not be difficult for others. And since...
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aspxpert
Aug 14, 2002 8:55 pm
You discount the status of XML as a standard far too much. Because XML is a standard, there are a myriad of (free) tools that enable coders to very easily...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Aug 14, 2002 9:08 pm
... <snip> ... My god. You suggest that people might find it hard to deal with XML, then ask if there's a way to, basically, create user-created plugins? <g> ...
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mauriceonmaplate
mauriceonmap...
Aug 14, 2002 9:09 pm
... I thought long and hard on this before commenting. ... It all depends on the DSD [I think that's right] which contains the rules that validate the XML. ......
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mauriceonmaplate
mauriceonmap...
Aug 14, 2002 9:17 pm
... Java? ... XML, ... plugins? ... No my idea was another program to create the transfer files. Especially if a class/object could be generated/saved and then...
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aspxpert
Aug 14, 2002 9:25 pm
If you allow scripting into the equation, you run the risk of it becoming a "crutch". And thus allow it to become dangerous. This should be done only with...
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mauriceonmaplate
mauriceonmap...
Aug 14, 2002 9:47 pm
... first ... I was seeing two programs...a PCGen and a PCGenFile Editor...But I guess the Editor would become the target of the problems we currently have...
